12 October 17, coming soon: Translated by 04 September 17 “Our gestures have taken us farther into the day Than tomorrow will understand. They live us.” —John Ashbery (1927–2017), “All Kinds of Caresses,” CR 27:04, 1976 Chicago Review mourns the passing of John Ashbery, one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century and an ever-generous contributor to this journal. His first poem in CR was “The Mysterious X” (1974), followed by “The Thief of Poetry” and “All Kinds of Caresses” (1976). Of “All Kinds of Caresses,” which was reprinted in CR‘s Fifty Years: A Retrospective Issue, the editors noted: “[Ashbery’s] poetry is famously difficult; as he writes in the following poem, ‘it isn’t absolutely clear.' ” In the coming years, CR would go on to publish four more of Ashbery’s poems (in our 2006 sixtieth-anniversary issue), a letter he wrote in response to poet Eileen Myles (2008), and his correspondence with Elliott Carter regarding their collaboration on “Syringa” (2014). Photographs of Carter’s manuscript sketches alongside Ashbery’s poem text were featured in that special issue, 58:34. In memory of John Ashbery, we have made all of his contributions to CR (1974–2006) available.

18 August 17 “Let poetry be like a key / That opens a thousand doors.” —Vicente Huidobro, “Ars Poetica,” CR 27:02 (1975), tr. Eliot Weinberger. To celebrate on the Infrarealist movement in Mexico, we have compiled a selection of Latin American poetry from CR’s archives. Read the full poems! 04 August 17 “Perhaps all compelling works of art engage the eye differently over time, and expand one’s capacity to see. For me, this is certainly true of Cortor’s work.” In Chicago Review 59:4/60:1, Liesl Olson covers the visual artist Eldzier Cortor, whose work is on permanent display at the Art Institute of Chicago. Read the full essay and interview! 25 July 17 “The question forms of contemporary poetry in the ‘tradition of what is unanswerable’ perform the unanswerable as a specimen of resistance to the logic of commensurability, identity, and equivalence.” In “Unanswerable Questions,” Joe Luna examines the erotetic in contemporary British and American poetry.

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